Cheapest and easiest option will be a 5000-series X3D chip if you can find one. Even the 5500X3D would be a decent improvement, despite having two less cores, but the 5600X3D and 5800X3D will generally be a good 10% faster again. These will drop straight in place of your 2700X, saving you from replacing anything else.
Just make sure to update your BIOS first. I don’t think modern PCs will boot if they don’t know what the processor is (it’s been a very long time since I tried that).
5800X3D is the GOAT for that socket, but mostly unobtainable at this point. 5700X3D would be your next best bet. Basically the same as the 5800X3D just clocked a little slower. Otherwise, any 5000-series X3D CPU, though “upgrading” to a CPU with less than 8 cores is kind of lame.
Everyone snatched up the 5800x3d after seeing ram prices and AMD stopping production on them. Any X3d will be a big upgrade, even a regular 5600x would be a good drop in upgrade. Thats the best part about AMD, if you were on an Intel board you’d have to replace the motherboard, cpu, and probably the ram since it doesnt make sense to buy a new platform and not go ddr5 at this point.
If AM4 chips are too hard to source, it’s also possible to at least save your RAM and get into a 12/13/14th gen Intel system with a DDR4 board. It will perform about the same as any non x3d AM5 and beat most non X3D AM4 chip.
I don’t know that I’d recommend anyone get one of those unless they’re absolutely certain of what they’re getting into. Even with the now four microcode updates I still wouldn’t trust them in the long term. Doubtless there are plenty of examples where they’re fine but it’s far too easy to find examples of where they aren’t, and I just don’t like those odds when even the diagnostics are unreliable.
I’ve got two of them in my household, 14600k and a 13700k. No issues going on 3 years for the 13700k. 1 on the 14600k.
Also a 9600x, more recently.
They all perform pretty much the same and as expected. 13th and 14th gen failures are kind of more an exception than a rule. Especially when you aren’t going for an i9, which I wouldn’t recommend anyway.
Yes but you like myself are also are an experienced user and understand that you need to check your batch date to make sure you didn’t get an early batch that’s been sitting on the shelf somewhere. On top of this you also understand that you need to update your bios ASAP and know why.
Most people do not and probably will not. I’m pretty sure this is where Asterchades what’s coming from and why they wouldn’t recommend it. You would be amazed how many common users never update their bios nor even know how
i’m presently having a tough time reconciling that my HTPC/living room gaming PC has a higher IPC than my main desktop rig though. The 9600X is a good chip.